An illuminating novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman—whoever you are, wherever you are, and whenever it is in history and time.

In modern Jakarta, an anonymous man narrates the story of his lifelong friend, Nativisti, and what happened the day she disappeared. In the Dutch East Indies, in Semarang, a young Indo-Dutch girl, Rukmini, is captured by the Japanese army and forced into prostitution. Years later, Arini travels to the Netherlands to share her mother's dark past with a researcher.

After the American occupation of Japan during World War II, a former war photographer visits his memories of Hanako, the wife of a wounded former imperial soldier, but cannot escape his own darkness. And in modern Oska, a young Indonesian woman, Dara, haunted by her past and trying to conceive, becomes obsessed with a Japanese porn star.

Through these interconnected narratives, with stunning prose, Dias Novita Uri explores genealogical legacies, lost loves, the damage war inflicts on men, and the harm men do to women.

Pages: 160, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm